Where Are the Obvious Factoids

 08/14/2019 07:35:16 AM Wednesday

Where Are the Obvious Factoids

How many obvious facts have we encountered today? Four? Two? One? A dozen under a bushel of Alaskan gravel?

Your eyes and ears and nose can somethings lie to your brain. The simple flight of a monarch butterfly becomes a question mark to an expert sitting in Berkeley who cannot fathom how the gentle insect made it to Yosemite Falls without hitching a ride on the backpack of a kid from the Bronx, first time in the Sierras.

Which sense should we hold as true? Is seeing believing? Is hearing the exact same C-sharp from a Bach cello soloist the same as the one from the guitar of Sam the Younger in Marin City strumming "she'll be coming round the mountain" to his kids?

So, who is the expert?

With all of the "BIG DATA" screwing around on the "BIG CHESS BOARD" of the "SUPER INTERNET OF LIFE" and making us rank our experiences with the experiences of the "OTHERS" - what gives? Who's right?

You're right. I'm right. Given the circumstances. Given the circumstenches as my mate occasionally has put it.

Location, location, location.

Maize Elote Corn

08/03/2019 12:33:49 PM Saturday


Maize Elote Corn

Hola sobrinas y sobrinos.

Have you had your fill of fresh sweet corn on the cob this summer?  I remember how Juanito, Rosita Maria y Agua Clarita would put the 50 gallon pasta pot on the school house stove and cook three dozen or more corn cobs for a lunch feast. I can't remember if some of you liked them with butter and sea salt or olive oil and brewer's yeast or just plain like nature gives them to us. How many of the new kids in our families know about this?  - then followed the watermelon munch, juice dripping down our chins.

Cultural Notes:

When the Spanish got to the Caribbean islands, they saw maize growing right up to the shores. Maize is from the Taino language, from the people who had been there for 12,000 years, give or take a few thousand years.

When the Spanish got to Mexico, they found the same corn which the Aztecs called elote - corn on the cob. The Aztec people have been there since Crow stole fire from the sun 12,000 years ago, give or take a few thousand years.

When the English got to the blue hills of Massachusetts, they called maize corn because that's what they called wheat, rye, oats and barley grains.  These ancestors have been there for about 388 years, give or take a decade or two.


All good names for a gift from the Creator of the cosmos.


Paz siempre, sweethearts!

Tio R



1 Timothy 5:18

For the scripture saith,
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox
that treadeth out the corn.
And, The labourer is worthy
of his reward.


PS

How many oxen you got treading about...?

about face! 738 billion ram rods!

08/02/2019 05:39:41 AM Friday


Conceptual Poetry: Poetry as Software./
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( void * restrict_destination, constant void) ;



about face! 738 billion ram rods!


now we wait for the dogs to bark at the moon --
and don quixote to red-flag his bull --
another rocket or four get through the sieve --
tough guys kick against the cactus pricks --

about face! icarus nears the stone ground --
his wax-glued eagle's feathers melting off --
no dandies bet against a dead certainty --
even when wearing public domain boots --

these operations are marred by top commands --
no more standing aloof at respectful yards --
playing with edged tools on knight-errands --
can lead to harebrained tricks on the peninsula --

overconfident, double sure war gamers --
muck up scenarios with nonchalance.




Acts 26:13

At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven,
above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me
and them which journeyed with me.